Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare

'This is Living Art'

By:

Josie Billington

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Continuum Literary Studies

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For most of the twentieth century the exuberantfluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy ofserious attention. Even the evidence for the swiftness of her wit, thought andcomposition remains more impressionistic and anecdotal than firmly proven.Through close attention to original manuscript material, Josie Billingtonargues that Barrett Browning's fast, fine and excitedly vigorous and agileimaginative intelligence is Shakespearean, both in its power, and in thecreative drive and dynamic to which it gives rise. Billington contends that for Barrett Browning, asfor Shakespeare, writing was demonstrably a creative event not a second-orderrecord of experience, and that Barrett Browning's characteristic habits ofcomposition, and her creative procedure, resemble in significant ways those ofthe poet she valued most highly. A fascinating study of both writers' analogouscreative dispositions, minds and modes.

Author Biography:

Josie Billington teaches in the School of English, University of Liverpool, UK. Her publications include Faithful Realism (2002), Eliot's Middlemarch (2008)and an edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (2006).

Release date NZ

June 20th, 2013

Author

Josie Billington

Audience

General (US: Trade)

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Pages

160

Series

Continuum Literary Studies

Dimensions

156x234x8

ISBN-13

9781472510969

Product ID

21257630

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